CHILD FOUND IN THE TEMPLE
AMONG DOCTORS
"When I was twelve years old, they went as usual to the party and when she, after day, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem without his parents knowing. But believing that he would be in the trailer, did a day's journey, and sought him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. It happened that after three days they found him in the temple sitting among the teachers, listening and asking, everyone who heard him were amazed at his understanding and answers. When they saw him they were astonished, and his mother told him: "Son, why have you done this?" Your father and I, you anxiously looking for. " He told them: "And you sought me? Do not know that I must be in my Father's house?" But they did not understand the answer I gave. He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was obedient to them. His mother kept all these things in her heart. Jesus increased in wisdom in stature and grace before God and men " (Luke II, 42-52).
Three lessons can be drawn from the consideration of this mystery. The first is that of the priest as a man versed in the things of God. The Child Jesus was twelve goes to the Temple and is discussing with the doctors of the law by listening and asking questions, but answering them. So the priest should listen to the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the Magisterium of those who have the task of teaching (which is the Pope and the Bishops), inquire into those writings and documents of these, which constitute reliable criterion of good teaching, research and be able also to respond and give an account of the Catholic faith. Notice how Jesus shows respect for Jewish tradition. Know the Law and the Prophets, is interested in the interpretation of its specialists and gives his own view of things, causing the admiration of his listeners. Similarly, the priest must be a man imbued with God's law and Catholic teaching, interested in knowledge and expose it, because that is its role as a collaborator of the bishop in his power and mission of teaching. You can not teach something you do not know, hence the great importance of their preparation and their constant readiness to deepen the teaching of Holy Mother Church.
The second lesson relates to the priest as a man of the house of God. Its management will links to the altar to make him a sacrificer, who acts in persona Christi, renewing the saving sacrifice of Calvary bloodlessly every time he says Mass. The altar is the center of the church, where the faithful go to feed on the Word of God and of His Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist. Also come to her to reconcile with God and receive his grace through the other sacraments, the priest as receiving sanctifying. So the priest as sacrificial and sanctifying, is a man of God: your site is there in the house of God, whose efforts must be consumed. Child Jesus searched everywhere except in the place that was more obvious: the Temple. With this we meant that the natural place of the priest is his church. Here is where you buscársele and encontrársele usual. Must also escape any other place unbecoming his dignity and status. It is sad to see how sometimes God's ministers fled the sacred place to frequent places where neither profane laymen would find themselves without a blush. Being a man of God and church, being an assumed, a segregated from men, devoted to live primarily in terms of a supernatural being called to spread through his ministry. The faithful should be able to find your priest always available when you want. And they should be able to find it in the house of his Father.
Finally, we come to the attention of the priest as a devotee of Mary and Joseph, like Jesus who was obedient to them. Marian devotion is the true touchstone of Catholicism. If this is true for any true a fortiori it is referred to the priests, of whom Mary is a model. If she is not invested with priestly powers, it does fulfill a function that can be called by analogy "priest", as he did this to Jesus by the Holy Spirit and was the vehicle for the sanctification of the Baptist (Foreshadowing the sacramental grace), the work of Jesus Christ through his priests. So they should always be taken as an example: in her purity, her virginity, her obedience, her attention to the Word of God, a spirit of meditation, discretion, attention to the needs of others, its unconditional surrender to the divine will . San Jose is also a model for consecrated: in his chastity, obedience, in its availability to God, in his zeal provident by the Holy Family in their industry, in its righteousness. He was the custodian of the great mystery of the Incarnation, the mystery that is directly related to the Eucharist, as if for the first God became man and appeared in the world for the second Jesus Christ, God and true man, is host and is truly present among us as a nutrient. The priest is thus the guardian of the mystery of the Eucharist and, as such, rival of St. Joseph the righteous man, whose role in the economy of salvation is implied in the biblical story of the patriarch Joseph, who became viceroy Pharaoh king of Egypt. San Jose has an unexpected influence of their privileged position, it does go a certain way in the hypostatic order, as the Sagrada Familia transcript of the Trinitarian Family. From all this it follows that every priest recommended alive as Baby Jesus, subject to Mary and Joseph, obey and honor in the presence of God.
The priest, man of the house of God 
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